Politico Corrupto

Sebagai orang yang spent 10 tahun pertama hidupnya di Port Dickson dan kini rumah bapaknya di Teluk Kemang, Port Dickson, aku rasa aku berhak tulis pasal the upcoming by-election kat Bagan Pinang.

Dalam punya banyak manusia dan beruk yang ada kat daerah Port Dickson dan Negeri Sembilan keseluruhannya, apasal lah dipilih Mat Isa 'Doraemon' Samad untuk bertanding?

Mat Isa ni confirm rasuah, bai.

Orang UMNO sendiri yg jatuh hukuman kat mamat ketot ni.

Abis tu, pasal dipilih dia ni lagi?

Mesti kes dah takde orang lain dah ni.

Menyedihkan.

Takde orang lain dah ke kat Port Dickson?

Tapi jangan terkejut kalau Mat Isa menang.

Mat Isa patut menang, sebab dengarnya undi askar je dah ada dalam 4,000. Dan kat suratkhabar UMNO cakap dia calon terbaik. Orang Bagan Pinang suka dia.

Dan orang Port Dickson ni, sebagaimana rakyat dari bandar-bandar pertengahan saiz lain dalam Malaysia, masih terlalu mudah untuk dimomok-takutkan dengan cakap2 yang berbunyi, "kalau PAS menang, takde pembangunan lah PD" atau "kalau BN kalah, nanti jadi 13 Mei lagi".

Masih ada lahanat2 yang dok argue macam tu, jangan korang tak tahu.

Macamlah maju sangat Port Dickson sepanjang under BN!

Setakat ada KFC, Pizza Hut, Satay Hj Samuri bukan kemajuan namanya, bai.

Takyah bangga sangatlah dengan PD Walk, Store dan Billion Supermarket korang, kalau weekdays town Port Dickson macam pekan koboi.

Dari time aku kecik lagi dengar cerita nak buat theme park ala2 Disneyland kat PD.

Nampaknya sampai aku mati takkan menjadi kut plan tu.

Korang patut jangan lupa, dulu under BN lah yang kontrak buat toilet kat tepi pantai berharga sampai RM1juta. Aku tak buat cerita. Keluar suratkhabar apa dulu kes ni. Toilet tu pun biasa je, Takde pun keluar air automatik utk cebok berak.

Tapi lama2, kes tu senyap je. Orang semua pun lupa.

Ni Mat Isa dulu yang naik kes beri rasuah nak menang jawatan tinggi dalam UMNO jangan lak korang semua lupa.

Apa la pulak dia nak rasuah orang Bagan Pinang suruh undi dia kali ni?

Yang penting, ramai gak la sedara mara aku kat PD yang akan masyuk disebabkan pilihanraya kecil Bagan Pinang nanti.

Nasihat aku untuk sanak saudara orang Bagan Pinang:

"Kalau diberi duit, ambik, jangan tidak. Hari election nanti pergi
minum rootbeer float kat A&W Lake Garden Seremban lagi bagus"

Death and Celebration

All Hari Raya celebration's over, as far as I'm concerned.

This year, the 1st of Syawal on Sunday was no biggie.

Last Saturday (19th Sept), on the last day of Ramadhan, PakLang Usup passed away.

Another victim of cancer on Mak's side of the family.

PakLang's the forth amongst their siblings of fifteen (Mak was the fifth child), I lost one of the coolest, and perhaps the most kind-hearted uncle.

For many years as students, my brothers and I stayed at PakLang's house in Damansara Utama. He never asked for rent from us, and quite a few of my UM buddies got free lodging as well.

I went to see him at the hospital earlier last week, but he was already unconscious in the ICU. I knew things weren't good when I saw many machines connected to him.

Went to his funeral. I cried.

Then I drove to Rantau with Pian.

We still had to clean Mak's grave. The next day was, after all, Hari Raya.

The second shock of the day was when we found Mak's grave wide open. The soil in the centre of her cement tomb was almost a foot deeper than the supposed surface. Gone were the bougainvillea bush on top of her grave.

Quickly Adik was called to buy some soil. Pian and me gathered rocks and filled the space up. When Adik reached us, there were enough soil to work on. It was almost six pm by the time we were done. Adik also bought some nice pebbles which we lay on top of the new soil. Using permanent markers, I traced the worn-down jawi letters on Mak's headstone

That afternoon was really meaningful to me. It was good because all three of us brothers worked together on restoring Mak's grave, right before Raya, one day after her birthday.

What better birthday gift could we have given her, don't you think?

So Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri, maaf zahir dan batin.

Selamat Hari Jadi, Mak...

Hari ni hari ke-28 umat Islam berpuasa.

Hari ni jugak hari jadi Mak.

Kalau Mak ada lagi, hari ni 56 tahun umurnya.

Banyak yang aku terkenangkan hari ni.

Lusa dah hari raya.

Esok insyaallah aku akan pergi bersihkan kuburnya.

Moga dapat hilang rindu ini pada Mak.

Ooops, we missed it again !!!

Nen and I again forgot about it for the second consecutive year.

Last year pun we missed it. Sama-sama tak ingat.

Masa tu both of us were very busy la kut.

This year it happened again.

Tapi at least this year, we have a valid reason not to remember.

Yesterday we were busy getting Nen discharged from the hospital.

Even today's unique date of 090909 fail to trigger anything in my head.

That was until Nen buzz me over the YM.

Semalam rupanya was our 8th wedding anniversary.

And we spent the day together yesterday, and yet none of us remembered.

Happy anniversary, my love.

Weekend ni kita gi celebrate, ok?

Sorry I forgot about it.

Tapi thank God you did, too.

Heheheehehe.

....

Biar ku bilang satu-satu :


Awal tahun ni, Fira kena operate appendic.

Adik sakit batu karang.

Then kaki aku pulak problem.

Lepas tu Suffiah kena H1N1.

Aunty Chik pun sakit di awal puasa.

Sekarang Nen pulak kat hospital.


Di Ramadhan ini,

aku berdoa:

"Ya Allah, ampunilah kami.

Kami tempuhi dugaan demi dugaan,

mohon dikasihaniMu, Yang Ehsan"